Legal Opinion
Pope v. City of Atlanta
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided September 27, 1978No. 33784PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
This appeal presents a constitutional challenge to the Metropolitan River Protection Act (Ga. L. 1973, p. 128 et seq., as amended by Ga. L. 1975, p. 837), and the Chattahoochee Corridor Study, authorized by the River Act and adopted by the City of Atlanta. Atlanta Regional Commission, Chattahoochee Corridor Study (1972).
The Metropolitan River Protection Act ("River Act”) permits a planning commission for a metropolitan area with a population of one million or more persons to develop a comprehensive plan for land and water use along stream corridors when a stream supplies forty…
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